‘The Connected Stage’ Series: Kylián and Sangba

Memory glides across the dark; movement crystallises into landscape

Classics never truly end; new works bring them into focus anew.

An enduring work, using abstract movement to evoke the solitude of the sleepless and the mind adrift;
a new creation, where far and near, reality and illusion, overlap in layers, leaving space for the imagination to continue.

Jiří Kylián’s classic Sleepless cuts through the still night with abstract movement, tracing the solitude of the insomniac and the mind adrift. Time lingers between stillness and suspension, leaving behind a faint echo.
In Sang Jijia’s new work a | ch, far and near views intersect, while light, shadow and bodies overlap. The landscape resists being seen all at once, leaving room for the imagination to continue.

Looking is an endless act of wandering. Through difference, new paths emerge, revealing new forms of beauty and meaning.

Sleepless
Choreography and Set Design: Jiří Kylián
Stager: Urtzi Aranburu
Music Concept: Jiří Kylián
Music: Dirk Haubrich, composition based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Glass Harmonica + Quartet, Adagio K617 (1791)
Lighting Design: Kees Tjebbes
Costume Design: Joke Visser
Technical Supervision: Joost Biegelaar
World première: November 11, 2004, Lucent Danstheater, Den Haag, the Netherlands, Nederlands Dans Theater 2

a | ch
Choreography: Sang Jijia
Music: KUNG Chi-shing, Olivier CONG
Set and Lighting Design: Lawmanray
Video Co-design: Oliver SHING, CHAN Ka-ho
Costume Design: Cheryl CHING
Sound Design: Anthony YEUNG

 

Performance:
AN Tzu-huan
CHEN Dai-wen
CHEN Jia-wen
Jon Henri FERRER
GAO Sheng-ting
Suyi HON
HUANG Teng-seng
JIANG Xu-ling
Stephanie LI
SHUM Pui-yung
Alliah Xandra TORTE
YANG Yu
Skye YAO

A Programme of City Contemporary Dance Festival 2026

A Programme of the Asia+ Festival 2026

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This new music work is commissioned by City Contemporary Dance Co Ltd in 2026 with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund.

30*-31.10.2026 (Fri-Sat) 8pm
$450, $360, $280
*With post-performance meet-the-artist session
The Hall, East Kowloon Cultural Centre